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Item Identifier Number

MS457_01_46

Collection

MS-457: World War I Glass Plate Stereoview Collection

Description

A glass plate stereoview slide with handwritten label 973 Foch Joffre Deschanel La Victoire (973 Foch Joffre Deschanel victory). French dignitaries gather after France's victory in World War I. Included in the photo, near the top of the steps, is Paul Deschanel, Ferdinand Foch, and Joseph Joffre. Deschanel served as president of France during the war. Foch was a French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland, a military theorist and the Supreme Allied Commander during the First World War. Joseph Joffre was a French general who served as Commander-in-Chief of French forces on the Western Front from the start of World War I until the end of 1916.